Spring Fling

Last spring fling of the series......too bad I just now am coming into form. Race started out nice, keeping good position behind the mass of bike shack racers. Sprint lap came up, lost touch of the leading group of 3, but finished took 4th in no mans land with the rest of the field trailing. Was able to recover over the next 2 laps, and save up for the final sprint. Got to the last part of the course before the finish and tried squeeze by a rider on the inside so i could launch my sprint but I was blocked out and had to relaunch a late sprint on the outside, came around the majority of the riders in front of me but then got blown by some guy from the back, and had a photo finish for second place........judges went to the video and I got beat by a fraction-3rd place.

We got the tuesday night crit practice started now, racing in the B group. Jane and all the ladies are also racing during the same time, although it's all broken up with riders all over the place. Although it's fairly informal finished first with a huge sprint off the front.


Talked jane into racing the final sprint fling with me. She raced first with the womens 4's, and then again with the 3/4 group. In the first race two ladies went off the front and she settled in with a group of 3 that were trailing. was just out of contention on the sprint lap, and broke away from the 3 on the final lap. she almost caught the leading 2 who were slowing down before their sprint, but finished 3rd. Ended up taking 4th b/c of the no points on the sprint. In her 3/4 race she was just there for the fitness. Race was over twice as long as the 4 race and she ended up in 5th or 6th. Good day for her.

Next week is the bazaar road race and on sunday jane is running a 10k in the morning and racing an all womens crit at noon, we'll see how that goes.